THE NE.W YORKER who looks as if she's just walked out of a beauty salon!" And later "Come on now, don't be extras-be a na- tion!" In Mora's film, it is Cagney and Roosevelt who seem to hold Amer- icans together as a nation in the De- C h . " T ." pressIon: agney, s own In aXI (1932), "Picture Snatcher" (1933), "Lady Killer" (1934), and "G-Men" ( 1935 ), with his coiled-spring walk and hie; swift nasal ripostes, who some- how bestowed the American virtues of individualism and candor on gangster- ism and G-Mannery at the very mo- ment when panic headlines about crime were hitting the papers, and when J. Edgar Hoover was already instilling a good deal of doubt into the heads of liberals; and Roosevelt, whom we see many times in clips, including one from his Inauguration speech of 1933 ("The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"), and others from less famous speeches that show us his actor's gift of irony. He would mimic the opposition, or he would speak to the topic of his suspect leftishness : "You have heard that I was at the very least an ogre, a consorter with Communists. . . that I breakfasted every morning on a dish of grilled millionaire." Mora simply re- cords Roosevelt's personal transition from the famous "I hate war" speech of September 3, 1939, to the Pearl Harbor war-declaration speech with- out trying to shed any new light on it, and he shows us one of the celebrated fireside-chat family scenes that were staged for newsreels, cutting to Cagney listening to Roosevelt in a feature film. A Communist speaks on a soapbox. i\nd a very young Orson Welles holds a press conference ahout the astonishing publIc alarm after the Mercury Thea- tre's radio production of H. G. Wells' "The '-'Tar of the Worlds" in 1938. Jack Benny jokes about Hitler in "To Be or Not to Be" (1942). There is a cut from Bogart being sworn into a sort of Ku Klux Klan in "Black Le- gion" (1937) to a roomful of teen-age boys swearing allegiance to the flag and being told to remember that "the pass- d . , '" Th wor IS our country. ere are scenes from Hollywood mOVIes-not many of them-showIng men work- ing, making one remember that Dreiser was then calling on American wnters to stand up for showing work in film. (Dreiser "made people uneasy by tak- ing the movies seriously," wrote Ed- mund Wilson in "The American Jit- ters.") There are saddenIng newsree] interviews with country men talking about crop failures, recalling Studs Terkel's reference, in "Hard Times," to the New Deal's novel assertion that 67 \\ ,: " In Bermuda. '*<<..'. ..<:)ex ^ '" 1 . . ?/' " , : y "" ... t , "f, , :", 1... . . <<< , ; , ",. .f; : -( Ì" 1 , \ ' "v ", ' ' .:: '-S 1> } " \ , ;. '\ " -ø It \> "r >, ,,': f' ,,' j v <. ;t .t ':, , -. j / '" N <:- : "- ; . . . ' ."::O- 1- ',,<, , ,,' APHE AT WATER ) HC . . we are known as Tartan C k's .".. ".. H. Ä. & E SMITH LTD. · HAMILTON BERMUDA '" Visit our gaHery and find the artist of your choKe There are doctors who have discovered that "resting comfortably" has a very special meaning when staying in Boston. , "" PORTRAITS, INC We represent 200 of today's leading portrait painters and sculptors The Ritz is for them. 41 EAST 57th STREET NEW YORK 10022 Ii you an t be a house guest Ín Bn ks (;onnty be ours. The 1740 House is a country Inn- worthy of special note because of the stout determination of the hosts to give visitors a place to stay that IS quiet, charming and memorable. We'll be glad to send you our bro- chure and driving directions. 11 1'/ .11 .\ III) The Ritz-Carlton Boston \. ' Ifm 2-cgj . ctl) . ct2). c LUMBERVILLE.PA.18933 BUCKS COUNTY Tel.: 215-297-5661 Preferred Hotel reservations: 800-558-9898